+ Beauty breaks us open and connects us to the
hearts of others, the soul of the world, deepens our connections with the
places we live and dream about, the people we love, animals and plants, trees
and rivers. Beauty opens the door to creativity and wisdom.

+ Beauty is the
only answer to terror. But Beauty is only skin deep and illusory if it does not
include all within its harmonies. All. Anything less than this is counterfeit
Beauty, a thin and precarious facade that will eventually crumble.

+ All. In other words, everything God creates is
beautiful and there is simply no excuse for seeing anything but beauty in every person and every
creature. Period.

Ruth Gendler is right: “Beauty opens the door to creativity and wisdom.” We definitely need it
all of the time. Fortunately, it is
available to us at all times and places.
We simply need to know this and enjoy this and see all kinds of
fantastic connections. We are indeed: